Never Meant · American Football

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 139 BPM, 4:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-65 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 139 BPM
NEVER MEANT · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 16, 18 and 4 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 10 are fills and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-81.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART P
PART R
PART S
PART W
BREAK 3
11 groovesS12ESRJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Meant?

139 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Never Meant hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Never Meant?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 16, 18 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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